Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
【3.0】于我而言，92版《糖果人》的魅力乃是对都市传说的考古，种族仇恨即是在这个过程中解构出来的一种秘密，意味着那个时代非裔美国人在政治上的仍旧隐形，也意味着白人的恐惧。续集的观看必须结合当下的语境，它一方面从非裔角度自我追问过去的仇恨应该归于何处，另一方面又警惕着那些被粉饰的歧视。这一次，都市传说的回归不再是为了被考古，而是为了夺回书写权，Candyman以恐惧的符号变身为非裔守护神/超级英雄的方式得以重生。
[4.0/5.0] https://bit.ly/3zLCGet
70/100 乔丹皮尔特有的恐怖片气质还是存在的
隐喻太明显，然后整个感觉不是恐怖，而是科幻了。一点没有惊悚的效果。
candyman
一部要什么没什么的恐怖片，实质是招魂类恐怖片，还带着苦大仇深的黑人元素，但剧情实在是太碎太不连贯，讲的一点不吸引人，还莫名其妙的
5。观众被骗了。一部简单明了的黑白种族电影，相当无趣乏味无聊。
行活特别好，摄影与镜面的运用非常棒，视听方面毫不廉价。以老版的故事作为起点，用士绅化、现代艺术等元素以及精英视角为这个都市传说注入了一种“当代性”，Candyman不再只是一个恐怖形象，而是成为了一种容器，驻留的是历史种种受压迫之黑人的灵魂。问题在于情节的呈现和议题的表达之间处理得比较失衡，故事过于寡淡且没有营造出有效的阴森神秘氛围，在这样的状况下又要强塞政治诉求（甚至不能说是“隐喻”了，完全不如乔丹·皮尔那么灵活），奏效与否还得先打个问号。感觉这部新作不会讨大多数老版粉丝喜欢。
2.4/比起原片 有点奇怪 说不上来是隐喻太严重还是什么 有点乱炖的感觉 从都市怪谈变成了为了平权不断杀人 每个蜜蜂都是冤魂？
之前不能体会《逃出绝命镇》的好，如今才发现这是一种新的电影檄文，把那些残忍的暗黑史借着恐怖片的壳子还魂，这是对恐怖片这一类型片创新性的应用。可惜豆瓣现在黑即是恶，“扫黑风暴”过于偏执导致此类电影分低的离谱。剧作有些许混乱，视效以及概念的出彩十分增色，糅合当代艺术的元素整体是一部可看的内核是包裹着现实残忍真相的恐怖片。
Who can take the sunrise,Sprinkle it with dew?
毫无疑问的粪作，作为一部恐怖片，在反派主角“糖果人”的形象都没有塑造好的前提下，就苦大仇深的谈起了从美国建国时期延存至今的“种族歧视”的话题，最后白人警察不经询问直接枪杀黑人的镜头更是直指“弗洛伊德事件”；电影试图把嗜血的恶灵“糖果人”，看做黑人群体反抗精神和反击斗争的表现，这波操作真的让观众哭笑不得，堪比把塔利班视作阿富汗人民小救星。
赞美影片的镜头！首先是多段穿插剪影的表现方式，有种内敛的震撼力。然后是构图，不管是男主角独自走在曲折的回廊里，镜头由下往上使得四壁给人以不断挤压的狭小场面，亦或是相对镜子里呈现无数映象，高楼大厦中一扇窗上映出谋杀现场等的宽阔场面，都十分具有张力。
6.5 现代艺术与蜂巢群居的部分没能得到很好的展现，又不愿局限于典型的种族斗争而将幕后黑手设置为同类，以至于整个议题显得太杂而缺少提炼，实际仅需一句颤抖中的“tell everyone”就足以站点一切的苦痛和迫害，将罪恶公之于世。
服装 霓虹 画面构图 和一些细枝末节
視覺行先，劇情片走向大於恐怖片，同類言志上算近年執行得較好的一套。
节奏很好，不少亮点。导演并未想去做一部恐怖片，而是想表现：曾经的都市传说再一次发生在当下，有些东西会改变么?女主很美，标准的黑人美女，而黑蝠鲼可谓是男人的健身榜样了。这部镜头里的Chicago令人神往。
本来一会儿想去看的，查了下那场只有一个人买票，加上我就是俩，那人还买的最后一排，有点可怕。。要是只有我一个人感觉都还好。。这年头连看个恐怖片都要zz正确，反种族歧视。。
电影结尾，糖果侠那段独白像极了诺兰的“黑暗骑士”，誓将“钩子”符号化的劲头儿来了~这御空fly靠满脸的fly真TM亮了！
3.5星 镜头和美术都没没得说，很不错，尤其是开片的颠倒镜头整个把我迷住，但是问题还是出在剧情过于直白地揭示黑人的内核，导致觉得整个发展都很刻意，最后的剧情有些用力过猛了。但是片中的body horror也确实很给力，尤其是最后的那一幕的身体密集的画面，爽歪了。
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